Breda Lynch discusses her practice as part of the TULCA 2026 Artist Talks Series.

TULCA is pleased to present the Artist Talks Series as part of the 2026 programme, Veruca Salt, curated by Sinéad Keogh. Continuing its ongoing partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will present four talks throughout October and November 2026.

The series invites audiences to engage directly with participating artists and the curator, offering insights into their practices and the ideas shaping this year’s festival. All talks take place at ATU Galway City – Wellpark Road. Admission is free and booking is required.Breda Lynch discusses her practice as part of the TULCA 2026 Artist Talks Series. The talk accompanies Breda Lynch’s presentation at Galway Arts Centre for Veruca Salt.

Breda Lynch

Breda Lynch - A Irish visual artist working in a variety of media, including drawing, photography, print and digital media, video and installation. She engages with dialogues and discourses on - queer feminisms, Occulture, appropriation and the economy of the image. Lynch has exhibited extensively in Ireland and abroad. International exhibitions include curated group exhibitions in Scotland, England, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Thailand, China, USA and Australia. Solo exhibitions in Ireland include: ‘If Your Not Scared The Atomic Bomb Is Not Interesting’, at The Source Gallery, Thurles Co Tipperary (2024).’Witch and Lezzie’, Ashford Gallery RHA Dublin (2017), ‘Fragments of a Lost Civilisation’- Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar (2016), ’The Pit and Other Stories’, at Siamsa Tire Gallery, Tralee (2014), ’Thursday’s Clinic’,126 Gallery, Galway (2013), ‘Strangelove’, Black Mariah, Triskel, Cork (2010),’Song to the Siren’, Galway Arts Centre (2009), ‘Place of the Crows’ and ‘Fleurs Fatales’, Context Gallery Derry (2007) and ‘Dark Brides and Silent Twins’ Limerick City Gallery of Art (2006). She is represented in a number of national collections including IMMA Dublin, The Arts Council of Ireland, OPW – Office of Public Works Ireland, NUIG Collection – Galway, Luciano Benetton Italy, Trinity College Art Collection Dublin, Limerick City Gallery Collection, University of Limerick Collection, Hunt Museum Limerick and other private collections. In 2024, Lynch presented their work ‘Cake Bomb’, at the 24th Sydney Biennale Australia, titled ‘Ten Thousand Suns’ curated by Cosmin Costinas and Inti Gerrano. This was in partnership with IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art and Culture Ireland’s INVITE programme. In April 2026 she presented work in ‘Neither Water Nor Land’ at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Anna Czaban and Krzysztof Gutfrańsk.

ATU Galway City

Wellpark Road, Galway, H91 DY9Y

Access

Wheelchair accessible

Accessible toilet

Seating available

Accessible parking available

Event Time

19 November 2026

2–3.30pm

Getting There

Bus: Wellpark Road stop

Free parking

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts

Veruca Salt

Curated by Sinéad Keogh

6–22 November 2026

Galway, Ireland

www.tulca.ie

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